Former FSU Booster chair sentenced in Bay County child abuse case

Don Reinhard, 57, entered a plea of no contest to the charges he forced a 3-year-old to eat feces as punishment during toilet training. He will spend 5 years in Bay County Correctional Institution.(Photo: Bay County Sheriff's Office)

In August, the mother of the child in the Bay County case, Katherine Buxton, pleaded no contest to charges of principal to child abuse. She told investigators she witnessed Reinhard abusing her child on at least two occasions but did not file a report.

In October 2009, Reinhard was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and money laundering related charges.

He was charged after a two-year investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Trustee Program found he falsified tax returns and concealed assets in bankruptcy filings.

Contact Karl Etters at ketters@tallahassee.com or @KarlEtters on Twitter.